Selections From Rabelias' Gargantua

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Selections From Rabelias' Gargantua
Rabelais, François, Ca. 1490-1553?
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Quarta insuper addit Bramantip, Camoies, Dimaris, Fesapo, Fresison.
This classification creates a fourth figure, not used by Aristotle, to whom the moods were but inversions of the first figure, and not much used before the beginning of the last century: A transposition of the premises of the fourth figure gives the arrangement of the first, in everything but the arrangement of major and minor terms, which is inverted. Baralipton here becomes, therefore, Bramantip.
— Rabelais never tires of mak
...ing fun of logic in general and the syllogism in particular ; as, for instance, in Book I, Chap. xx. But a more amusing case is Gargantua*s perturbation at the simultaneous death of his wife and birth of Pantagruel (Book II, Chap. iii). He does not know whether to laugh or cry : " D'un cost^ et d'autre, il avoit argumens sophistiques qui le suffoquoient; car il les faisoit tres bien in modo et figura, mais il ne les pouvoit souldre. Et, par ce moyen, demeuroit empestre comme la souris empeig^e, ou un milan pris au lacet.* This is undoubtedly a satire of the iropia known as the dne de Buridan^ of the ass equidistant between a bundle of hay and a pail of water, and dying of hunger in conse- quence.

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